Imagining nations
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Imagining nations
（York studies in cultural history）
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1998
- : hard
- : pbk
Available at 26 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hard ISBN 9780719051159
Description
The concept of the nation is central to modern understandings both of political community and of personal identity. Notions of national distinctiveness and of international competition dominate the ways in which we think about history, geography, culture, economics and human character. The essays in this book seek to understand the complex ways in which nations are imaginatively constructed. Dealing chiefly with British and German examples, but relating these examples to wider conceptual and theoretical issues, the essays illustrate both the diversity and the potential of a cultural approach to nationhood and nationalism. The book is conceived in an interdisciplinary spirit, drawing insights from intellectual history, art history, geography and literary studies, and tracing the implications of nationalist habits of thought across fields, as varied as historiography, cartography, visual art, science and economic statistics.
Table of Contents
- Beyond the liberal idea of the nation
- storylines - narratives and nationality in 19th-century Ireland
- Tacitus engendered - "Gothic feminism" and British historians, c.1750-1800
- the redeeming Teuton - 19th century notions of the "Germanic" in Germany and England
- paving the "peculiar path" - German nationalism and historiography since Ranke
- mapping national identities - the culture of cartography, with particular reference to the Ordnance Survey
- "All her ocean is her own"
- border crossings - Cornwall and the English (imagin)nation
- "What should they know of England who only England know?"
- science and nationhood - cultures of imagined communities
- imagining national economies
- money and nationalism.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719054600
Description
Revisiting divisions of labour is a reflection on the making of a modern sociological classic text and its enduring influence on the discipline and beyond. Ray Pahl's 1984 book is distinctive in the sustained impact it has had on how sociologists think about, research and report on the changing nature of work and domestic life. In this timely revisiting of a landmark project, excerpts from the original are interspersed with contributions from leading researchers reflecting on the book and its effects in the ensuing three decades. The book will be of interest to researchers, students and lecturers in sociology and related disciplines. -- .
Table of Contents
- Beyond the liberal idea of the nation
- storylines - narratives and nationality in 19th-century Ireland
- Tacitus engendered - "Gothic feminism" and British historians, c.1750-1800
- the redeeming Teuton - 19th century notions of the "Germanic" in Germany and England
- paving the "peculiar path" - German nationalism and historiography since Ranke
- mapping national identities - the culture of cartography, with particular reference to the Ordnance Survey
- "All her ocean is her own"
- border crossings - Cornwall and the English (imagin)nation
- "What should they know of England who only England know?"
- science and nationhood - cultures of imagined communities
- imagining national economies
- money and nationalism.
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